Professor Alex Bayen, Director of UC Berkeley's Institute of Transportation Studies, is featured in Fortune On Demand and PBS Terra on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to eliminate traffic jams. 

The NSF-funded  NHERI SimCenter, headquartered at UC Berkeley and led by PI Sanjay Govindjee, launched a project on Zooniverse, a crowd-sourcing website that leverages volunteer efforts of the general public to contribute to research projects. The Zooniverse project, “Building Detective for Disaster Preparedness,” is led by Dr.

Dr. Fazlur Khan (1929-1982), structural engineering and pragmatic visionary, ushered in a renaissance in skyscraper construction during the second half of the 20th century.

Professor Emeritus David Jenkins passed away on March 6, 2021. He was 85 years old.

Professor Jenkins received his PhD in Public Health from King's College University (Durham) in 1960. He joined UC Berkeley in 1964 as an Assistant Professor, rising through the ranks to full professorship in 1975. He retired in 1999, and remained deeply committed to Campus and the Department throughout his career.

In a collaboration between eCAL, NREL, Berkeley Lab, and Microgrid Labs, we are proud to announce the public release of EVOPT Planner Lite (Beta).

COVID-19 has brought countless changes to how we live, many of which will remain after the pandemic is over. In the KQED Bay Curious episode "How COVID Could Change the Bay Area For All of Us," Professor Susan Shaheen shares insights on the future of public transportation as the world starts to re-emerge from the pandemic.